help!! what will work in a field of HOT ROCKS??

[josey]

Hello All,I Like to Hunt for the yellow stuff,and I use an old Gold Bug But Its Time for a Change!! Can Anyone Tell me if the new G2 will be any better working on a sea of iron junk and Hot Rocks...By the way cant afford a Mine Lab SD!! Thanks Everyone

 

[Monte]

I Like to Hunt for the yellow stuff,and I use an old Gold Bug But Its Time for a Change!! Can Anyone Tell me if the new G2 will be any better working on a sea of iron junk and Hot Rocks.

Sadly, unless you are working a site that is known to produce larger-size gold nuggets, you just can't get away from dealing with iron. Often, due to the intensity of the ground mineralization at most gold producing sites, combined with the smaller size of most of the low-conductivity gold nuggets, they can 'read' in or near an iron TID or VDI range.

However, with the G2 you do have the ability to set the Discrimination level at a point where certain iron junk will produce a lower-tone audio, and some iron junk into the non-ferrous target range will produce a high-tone audio. I've already experimented a bit with some small gold samples and found that in some cases I could hunt in the Discriminate mode with a properly set Discrimination break-point and feel confident in detecting quite a few specimens that gave a high-tone response. Did I reject all iron targets? No, of course not, but I was using some rather small nugget test samples that were a challenge. If I knew a site produced a lot of 4 dwt or larger size nuggets, that would be a different matter.

Then there is the issue of dealing with problem rocks. I honestly wish we would have had a feature like Dave J. designed in the old Tesoro Diablo